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I know this is a little late, and I am sorry for the shameless plug, but here's more or less some of the major happenings this side of N-Day! ^^
The imminent countdown looms over. [1]
First announced on 22nd of September 2020 by Max Barry [2], The 5th Nuclear Apocalypse (N-Day5) was the fifth edition of the Nuclear Apocalypse, a series of special events that originated as the theme for NationStates' April Fools' Day event in 2017: the 5th Nuclear Apocalypse ran for 24 hours, from 08:00 CEST on 27 September 2020 to 08:00 CEST on 28 September 2020. More information about the past events and scores can be found on NSIndex [3].
This year’s N-Day sees the return of factions consisting of several large regions, as well as the often one-player factions consisting of their vast number of puppet nations. The event also sees the rise and fall of factions such as The Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as well as the fall and rise of factions such as the Potato Alliance.
A comprehensive guide and what you need to know – terms, factions, rules, etc, can be found in this dispatch:
page=dispatch/id=874170
The Augustin Alliance are back for the 5th Nuclear Apocalypse, and with them bringing members not just from Augustin Alliance, but from Anteria and Karma, (their close allies in peace), along with other regions such as Union of Allied States, Hartfelden, The Great Experiment, The United Ascendancy, Krasnaya, Scotia, Hive, URA, The Global Democratic Union, and Southern Africa. [4]
Horsemen of the Apocalypse also returns [5], with Hell as the main region. They are reinforced by Underworld, The Order of the Grey Wardens, Lily, Glass Gallows, Middle Earth, Hippy Haven. [6]
The Potato Alliance [7] also brings with them several member regions, most of them the major regions across the realm of NationStates – Spiritus, Forest, The South Pacific, The North Pacific, The Rejected Realms, 10000 Islands, Europe, Equilism, The Leftist Assembly, The Union of Democratic States, International Democratic Union, Yggdrasil, Autropolis, Oatland, Sonindia, The Hole to Hide In, New West Indies, Warzone Asia, Warzone Sandbox, India, European Union, Union of Democrats, Democratic Socialist Assembly, 00000 A World Power, The Communist Bloc, Big Farma. [8] Ultimately, this means that last year’s factions – Canopy and UPPERCUTS, have effectively merged for this year. The Potato Alliance, as it was formerly called, then became An Alliance of Potatoes on founding a faction on N-Day, since the names “The Potato Alliances” and “Potato Alliance” (and perhaps other names with “Potato” inside) were snatched by Horsemen.
The Fuster Cluck Coalition makes a return as well, founded by Northern Ocean and consisting of a group of nations and around 30 unique players mainly from Forum 7. Destructive Government Economic System, Synne industries, and Valentine Z’s presence of having a large number of puppets have proved to be a favour. Fuster Cluck has NAPs with An Alliance of Potatoes, Army of Freedom, Augustin Alliance, while there is an informal NAP with Ba Sing Se.
Ba Sing Se is also another one of the formidably large faction, consisting of regions Osiris, Lazarus, The Black Hawks, Lone Wolves United, Refugia, Social Technocratic Union, Caer Sidi, Europeia, and Thalassia. They are allied with Augustin Alliance.
CRAB – Crustaceans Repelling Atomic Bombardment, is a faction [9] (with their own region [10] made solely for this purpose) is another prominent major faction consisting of regions The West Pacific, The Pacific, Balder, and United Kingdom. For the course of the game, they have a Non-Aggression Pact with Augustin Alliance, as well as a Mutual Defense Pact with An Alliance of Potatoes.
There are also several other noteworthy and/or reported factions, noting that this list below is non-exhaustive:
Dangerous Stationery [11] – An one-man faction that saw its own successes and defeats. The main nation/player behind the faction, Pencil Sharpeners, did not participate for N-Day 3 and N-Day 4 respectively, making a comeback after N-Day 5. Their detailed account of the war can be seen here [12].
Kings Nuclear Guard [13] – Hailing from the region Bluecrown Keep. Aligned with The Vincence Empire, First World Order, The Wooloo Pact. They aim to destroy Wardopolis,
as quoted by one of their members. Inevitable destroyed by RAILGUN.
Note that while the events are ranked in chronological order to the best efforts, given the fluidity and concurrent nature of the game.
The Downfall and Constant Barrage towards The Potato Alliance
Horsemen of the Apocalypse has set its sights on An Alliance of Potatoes this time, constantly barraging the member nations of the faction with nuclear bombs at a consistent rate. [14] The NAP factions, such as Fuster Cluck and The Augustin Alliance, have defended and shielded them as best as they could (with Fuster Cluck defending from 10:03 to 11:43 CEST). However, the Horseman have proven themselves to be a great threat, as on 11:37 CEST, the announcement was made for the members of An Alliance of Potatoes to evacuate the faction and infiltrate Horsemen itself as a last attempt to ensure that the latter’s progress was impeded, according to the announcements on the Discord server, “Evacuate the Alliance! Join Horsemen, build up nukes, leave Horsemen for another faction or make your own if you can, fire the nukes at Horsemen, then move back to Horsemen! Repeat ad infinitum.”
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The Good Fight, the Fall, and Rise of A.T.O.M.I.C.
A.T.O.M.I.C. [15] [16] is a faction consisting of several regions: 21st Century Rome, Force, Iwakusphere, The Labyrinth, Loranium, Lorania, Southfield, Phoenix Partners, Thaecia, The Democratic Republic, The East Pacific, The Free Nations Region, The Kingdom of Great Britain, Wintercrest, and Wintreath. As contributed by Heaveria, the chronological order: ATOMIC annihilated Layem, while Horsemen annihilated Potato. This was followed by many diplomatic talks (with Augustin Alliance, Fuster Cluck, and Ba Sing Se) to form an alliance. ATOMIC then became the first faction to join Potato in a strong offensive against Horsemen, fighting Horsemen for 5 hours. Soon after that, Fuster Cluck Coalition joined ATOMIC, but it took quite a while until Augustin Alliance and Ba Sing Se joined the fight. For a short but formidable moment of time, ATOMIC started to get the upperhand and inflict radiation upon the relevant targets. However, becoming Horseman’s second targets, ATOMIC got overwhelmed and as a final last-minute effort, ATOMIC merged into Augustin Alliance.
However, due to The East Pacific’s disillusion with Augustin Alliance as a faction, ATOMIC, on a last-ditch effort to farm up the scores, decided to hit a few targets and factions of their own, namely card farmer factions like yNaught [17] and 0000000000000000000 [18] [19] – consisting of puppets from Noahs Second Country and Evrigenis. It was of note that based on the history of strikes and radiation accumulated, yNaught already was accumulating radiation from other factions, particularly of interest being the one with Noah’s faction itself, which was an attempt to gain a few points for themselves (i.e. by attacking each other’s puppet factions), followed by using another faction of puppets to join Noah’s Faction. ATOMIC's leadership saw Evrigenis and Noah's game after the split with Augustin Alliance and as a result, they too went for targeting and striking yNaught for a score boost.
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The Offensives on The Horsemen of the Apocalypse
With reference to the posts in this forum thread [20], Horsemen has faced several offensives that were geared towards weakening them. The rest of the factions, from both the experience and the sheer numbers, were aware that they were fighting a losing fight if they are going in alone, or that they are planning on completely obliterating the Horsemen. There came the multiple plans for this, as a result.
As of 4:03 PM CEST, Augustin Alliance conducted a large offensive on the Horsemen of The Apocalypse. AA, at that moment, has no radiation and is in second place. The Horsemen, in turn, were almost overwhelmed by the coordinated efforts of AA, so they couldn't defend completely. Nevertheless, due to the sheer size and resources available to them at their disposal, the Horsemen still held a strong lead, and with other large factions such as ATOMIC and An Alliance of Potatoes either merging with other factions or hiding out in bigger factions for safety, the Horsemen are in a strong position.
On 5:25 PM CEST, HoTA returned the favour by completely overwhelming Augustin Alliance with over 50,000 nukes, which were sent within a few minutes. AA, on the other hand, simply did not have the manpower or speed to defend and as a result fell from second to fourth at the time. The Horsemen was more or less unstoppable for that very moment.
On 6:10 PM CEST, Augustin Alliance, An Alliance of Potatoes, and Ba Bing Se launched a counterattack at Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which has brought their lead down to within a reachable distance for the other factions to catch up.
On 6:58 PM CEST, as stated by Zeta Reka and Hugeltaldom in the same thread, a wave of launches were sent out against Ba Sing Se, who had a wall of 100,000+ shields at hand. The Horsemen would be using a few of their 55,000 to 60,000 shields against the 20,000 incoming missiles, effectively ensuring that little to no radiation will harm them.
Eventually, the series of attacks from the aforementioned factions, on top of Fuster Cluck and a few others, have put Horsemen down from reigning at the top position to the bottom (396th) of the leaderboard in terms of score at a -160,438 at the time of this writing (9:33 PM CEST).
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CRAB’s Retaliation and Attacks
Another noteworthy and not the very least mention would be the members of CRAB – Crustaceans Repelling Atomic Bombardment as it was aforementioned in the Initial Factions page. They too were instrumental in bringing down Horsemen with them, but not before they finished obliterating Nuclear World Order approximately around 1:20 PM CEST (27th of September) [18]. Their sights were then set on the Horsemen, but also on top of obliterating other factions such as The Sliding Legion. CRAB by the end of the event finished strong with a score of 107,970 - 108,070 strikes, with just 100 radiation all concentrated on Xoriet [19]. The abundance of shields, once again, has helped them in their favour just like with many other factions.
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The Potato Alliance’s Comeback
The Potato Alliance (or An Potato Alliance) made one of the most incredible and positively drastic comebacks in the history of N-Day – after almost completely losing (to the point of racking a -65,000 score), they were able to work together with other large factions (ATOMIC, NSLeft, Fuster Cluck Coalition, and CRAB being and were currently in second as of the time of this writing (77,976 score at 9:40 PM CEST), despite the large amount of radiation that they have gotten themselves into.
Of note is that around 7:30 PM CEST, The Salaxalans stated that their Discord server (Potato Command) suffered a blackout for five minutes; a few number of other servers (not necessarily NS-based) have also faced downtimes. Despite the difficulties, the members have managed to get around and pushed back their faction back to the leaderboard.
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Fuster Cluck Coalition – The F7 Army
Lead by The Chuck, with orders from officers such as Bloodshade, Uvoan, Port Ember, The Albali Republic, along with many others, the 30-player strong faction consisting mainly of Forum 7 users have stood their ground for this particular N-Day with absolutely zero radiation across the entire faction. The strategies of Fuster Cluck includes but not limited to: Ensuring that at least a few users and players are awake at any point in time of the game, stockpiling shields regardless of specialities for the first hour or two of the game, and in particular, making sure that they do not pick a battle that they cannot win. Additionally, thanks to the (almost) air-tight movement system of appointing officers to open and close the faction, the number of rogue nations from the faction were nearly next to none.
One of the first targets that Fuster Cluck went for was Serena’s Legion [21], consisting and made by the region The Grand Dominion, though it consists the likes of other nations from other regions such as Greatdux [22] from OmniOne [23]. Around 10 AM CEST, Fuster targeted and started an all-out barrage against the faction, with the latter suffering massive damage to the point of no recovery. Serena’s Legion was a special mention, given that with the number of strikes and shields that they first have, on top of the number of nations, their situation was more or less in-line with what happened to The Potato Alliance – they started up rather well, got destroyed by Fuster Clucks, rose up again, only to be destroyed by other factions [24].
On 10 PM CEST, in synchronisation with the other NAP factions and alliances, Fuster Cluck sent thousands of launches (and strikes) on Horsemen, severely weakening the latter to the point of them moving from the very comfortable first position to last. Around the same time, Mars Command [25] started targeting one of Fuster’s members – South reinkalistan, having around 643 targets at them at its peak. This quickly came to a halt in favour for Fuster, as this particular move attracted the ire of The Army of Freedom [26], and to a smaller extent, by The Potato Alliance, since both of these factions have a NAP with Fuster. The threat from Mars Command was neutralised in a matter of moments.
As the time goes on, Fuster, while keeping the friendly term with most large factions, have successfully targeted and struck out factions such as The Shadow Cult, Mars Command, E-Team, and Unlikely Alliance. By the end of N-Day, i.e. whereby the nations were asked to “Learn To Love Again”, Fuster Cluck survived with 0 Radiation, and in the words of Valentine Z, “Thank goodness the 2 Rads didn’t get us this time,” in reference to the neglect in N-Day 4 that saw the faction being struck by 2 missiles and rendering the “0 Rad Finish” null and void [27].
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The Rise of the Card Farmers
While it’s no stranger to NationStates that Card Farmers (players with nations for the sole purpose of answering issues and collecting trading cards) have participated in the past N-Day or two before, they have came into full effect this time with their own factions. More about the puppet factions (on top of other news), can be found here. [28].
One particular epitome of such a faction is Second Best Test, by Big Farma. It has seen a large success of its own, and according to Max Barry’s own Top 10 Factions with Highest Scores Per Nation [29], Second Best Test [30] has netted the highest score of 1,167.8 (29,194 score across 25 nations), with the second best being Gholgoth [31] with 133.8 (4,817 score across 36 nations).
Another such example of card farmers joining in the forces of the larger factions is Evrigenis, whereby their full account can be read here [32]. If Second Best Test is an example of card farmers creating their own factions from the start, Evrigenis is an example of joining the existing large factions, jumping from one to another, then joining the card farmer factions. It was not to say that their decisions were wrong and rather, it was an interesting insight on the various activity and paths that the players have taken. For Evrigenis, it was a general play of them having puppets spread across the large factions such as Augustin Alliance, ATOMIC, and Alliance of Potatoes. Eventually, they too joined Noahs Second Country’s faction, ultimately a two-man faction consisting of hundreds of puppets at their peak.
However, it is of note that throughout the game, the nations, if they have no radiation, are able to freely travel around the factions in any order or any number of times that they desire. In other words, the number of nations have changed constantly throughout the game, and the final results do not reflect the actual size of the factions, whatever they might be, and thus the Scores per Nation being an inaccurate matrix. For instance, one of the strategies [citation needed] especially for the single-player factions involve having all of their nations and puppets during their active hours (i.e. when the player is involved in nuking and shielding), and when the shielding is more or less enough, or if their puppet nations are not targeted AND they have no radiation on them, their nations then either leave or join another faction. This ensures that the scores do not decrease due to radiation (i.e. the score is reflected by Strikes subtracted by Radiation). Alnobian Nuclear Defense Alliance [33] is one particular example of this strategy whereby there was only one nation left by the end of the game, despite the strikes coming from other nations that used to be in the faction.
Global Statistics
In terms of global statistics [29], 475 factions have been created overall, with 38,693 nations joining a faction at any point in time. 4,359,585 nukes were targeted, 3,715,752 nukes were launched, with 1,800,098 of these nukes being shot down. 1,916,864 strikes occurred with 1,536,382 radiation, implying that cases of nukes overshooting (striking on the nation despite it being 100% irradiated) are all not uncommon.
More data, courtesy of August, can be seen here.
Top 10 and Bottom 10 Factions by Score
Top and last page of the factions sorted by score can be seen below [34] [35]:
Top 10 Factions by number of nukes
The top 10 most stockpiled factions are as follows [36]. Of note is that out of the 475 factions, only 79 of them has at least 1 nuke, thus the rest of the factions have 0 nukes by the end of the game.
Top 10 Factions by number of shields
The top 10 most shielded factions are as follows [37]:
Top 10 Factions by number of strikes
The top 10 factions with the most number of strikes are as follows [38]:
Top 10 Factions by amount of radiation
The top 10 factions that are most irradiated are as follows [39]:
N-Day coincides with Yom Kippur
It is well-known that N-Day for NationStates is meant to coincide with the actual United Nations’ International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. However, for the first few hours before the official reply, there were debates and concerns on the threads [40] about the fact that the times for N-Day are clashing and conflicting with Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, whereby Jews traditionally observe this holy day with a day-long fast and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services.
It was later clarified by [Violet] in the same thread [41] that it was a honest mistake and keeping this forward in mind, alternative arrangements and changes to the commencement of N-Day will be made for the future.Excessive Puppet Usage
Just like the previous years, there is absolutely no limit on the number of nations that a player can use for this event, i.e. the event is not on “single nation per player” like WA, or a few other games. This has been talked about in threads such as here – while it’s a misconception that it is scripted and botted, such actions, such as using multiple nations through various methods and controlling them manually, is more or less has been legal, and this has caused ire in a great percentage of users, ranging from how smaller factions have been curbstomped by the larger ones. There were suggestions as to how to get around this, such as only allowing WA nations to participate (though this would exclude players that do not join WA out of their personal choices), along with allowing perhaps 5-10 nations per player.
Rogue Nations and Ejection Suggestion
Every faction, for every N-Day, without fail, were plagued by the existence of Rogue Nations, i.e. nations belonging to players that disobey orders or causes chaos within the faction itself. Some of their behaviour includes but not limited to: Shooting down nukes that are launched by the faction-mates, and targeting (and launching) at nations in factions that has a NAP with them (for example, Augustin Alliance nation shooting at a Potato Alliance nation). This behaviour, while more or less harmless to larger factions with extensive shield networks, can still be detrimental and hurts relations between factions since shields have to be used, and if not careful, radiation can damage a flawless zero-radiation run. This suggestion, first started by Fauxia for this year [42], has received an overwhelming support from the community, though there was no official statement from the NationStates staff on the thread.
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Of course, the dispatch is still open to edits, so if you would like me to cover some story, do drop me a TG.
Thank you, and have a great day! ♥
Mount Seymour, Atsvea, Lord Dominator, Darths and Droids, and 10 othersPalos heights, Honeydewistania, Turbeaux, Canaltia, Outer Bele Levy Epies, Terrabod, Middle Barael, Julunaphra, United provinces of isn, and Adaline
Yeah sorry about that. My nation was originally based around just being mildly annoying, but that got old really fast and I got rid of that. The flag just kinda stuck, so I kept it. I will say it used to be a lot worse than it is right now. I kept cropping it slightly and reapplying the ripple affect to the already rippled flag.
Sacara, Mount Seymour, Atsvea, Lord Dominator, and 6 othersPalos heights, Turbeaux, Outer Bele Levy Epies, Nattily dressed anarchists on bicycles, Middle Barael, and Julunaphra
You sir are doing a great service for all of NS. Tell me you have stuff similar for Z-Day, please.
Valentine Z, Atsvea, Lord Dominator, Palos heights, and 4 othersOuter Bele Levy Epies, Middle Barael, Julunaphra, and United provinces of isn
Err... not very sure if I want to do that, because this actually took quite an amount of time to do, and Sept-Dec is some of the busiest months of my life. >,<
I had to make this N-Day reporting on top of playing the game happen while I got two deadlines to meet. It was frankly extremely stressful, though I do say that I enjoyed looking at the end-results when the dispatch got more and more content!
Alcantaria, Mount Seymour, Atsvea, Lord Dominator, and 7 othersDarths and Droids, Palos heights, Turbeaux, Outer Bele Levy Epies, Middle Barael, Julunaphra, and United provinces of isn
Foresters,
In what I expect is the last update related to our current embassy request at vote, I am pleased to report the following:
I have spoken with St Abbaddon's WA Delegate, who has confirmed that while the officer who made the request was indeed the individual in question, their identity and activities were known to the region, and they were operating there with full support of St Abbaddon's residents, who believe very firmly in second chances. While that officer has now stepped down and departed, the region remains positive on the subject of the embassy, if it is of mutual interest to us as well. The request can be considered an honest and legitimate expression of embassy interest.
For those who have voted, or changed votes, according to the ongoing discussion here on the RMB, apologies if you feel confusion about what position you want to take. Given time constraints, and the always uncertain nature of how and when replies might be forthcoming, I thought it best that all information be made available to the public as rapidly as possible in the interest of transparency, with updates coming as they are received. With this being what I expect to be the final bit of information on this particular topic, I would encourage people to choose their final votes, whichever direction they might be, in accordance with the full spectrum of knowledge now available to us.
-Verdant Haven
Octopus islands, Chan island, Mount Seymour, Atsvea, and 13 othersRuinenlust, Lord Dominator, Darths and Droids, Palos heights, Honeydewistania, Turbeaux, Outer Bele Levy Epies, Terrabod, Middle Barael, The young ur, Julunaphra, United provinces of isn, and Adaline
XKI September report is up!
10000 Islands Emissary Report
Date: September 2020
Population: 1,522
Delegate Endorsement: 414
Forum:
https://10000islands.proboards.com/ Discord:
https://discord.gg/4uWZbNS Has your region been invaded, or do you want to get in touch with TITO? If so, contact one of the following nations:
~Chief Executive: Markanite
~Field Commander: Kanta Hame
~Tactical Officers: Shy Guyia, Smugglers and Mercs (TITO EF), THX1138, Controlitia, Grea Kriopia, Kuriko
~Executive Officers: Hakketomat, Aschente
As of this report's publication, the Government of 10000 Islands consists of:
~Chief Executive: Markanite
~WA Delegate: HumanSanity
~Senior Senator for New Republica South (Debates and Discussions): Controlitia
~Senator for Himes West (RP): Wille-Harlia
~Senator for Lyonnesse East (Houses): Thedairos
~Senator for Blue Canaria North (Emissary Report): Wischland
~Minister of Immigration: THX1138
~Minister of Education: Grea Kriopia
~Minister of Labor: Free Las Pinas
Information about other government officials of 10000 Islands can be found here.
Scheduled elections took place in September for the positions of Delegate, Senator for New Republica South, and Senator for Blue Canaria North.
HumanSanity of MSPP entered the race for Delegate, with strong support from the previous month's straw poll. Hakketomat also ran a playful campaign in the democratic spirit. Despite accusations of vehicular manslaughter, HS pulled through with an easy victory. Congratulations!
Incumbent Controlitia defeated Kohnhead and Solarampa to stay on as Senator for New Republica South.
Wischland ran unopposed to become Senator for Blue Canaria North following Grea Kriopia's transition to Minister of Education.
Congratulations to all candidate for a campaign well-run.
XKI thanks Kuriko for her invaluable service as Delegate.
~Minister of Education Grea Kriopia appointed Kohnhead as her deputy to assist her in collecting and organizing information about XKI
~ Ananke II and Eastern New England joined the Welcome Buddies team on the behest of Grea Kriopia to greet and mentor new Islanders
~Dokansia was made emissary to Forest and Yuwa was made emissary to Greater Dienstad
~Delegate HumanSanity hired Margaux as Secretary of State, to assist in the supervision of Emissaries and advise of FA matters
~Eastern New England was hired as Foreign Affairs Secretary
This year's N-Day prompted great excitement within 10000 Islands. As the date grew nearer Islanders were eager to discuss N-Day in the RMB and every nation prepared for the nuclear apocalypse. XKI joined the Potato Alliance alongside many other spud-loving allies, with HumanSanity and Haivon serving as Potato Generals to lead XKI's operations.
Although the Potato Alliance had a rough start to N-Day, some expert strategy and the willingness of every member to grind away at the production of shields and nukes allowed for a quick recovery. Potato Alliance regained a positive score at about +12:56. From there, the faction climbed the ranks from last place up all the way to 2nd place, ending N-day with an astounding score of 284,847 and a grand total of 346,472 strikes!
~September's
Featured Nation was Yuwa. Consistent and undoubtedly reliable, Yuwa's dedicated work as a recruiter, TITO member, and emissary makes them more than worthy of the honor. Keep up the good work!~Following the success of XKI's first TacoVision, Hakketomat quickly decided to host a
round two. TacoVision II was even more popular, with 32 song submissions, an extended listening party, and a nail-biting live vote count! Congratulations to Ananke II for winning with the excellent song choice of Est-ce que tu m'aimes?~A
Short Story Contest hosted by Taco-Island-Charities asked Islanders to write a story about someone who "has been completely color blind for their entire life, seeing only grayscale, until they come across a stranger who appears in color." The contest concluded this month, with Jabberwocky taking the cake with his charming tale.~Towards the end of the month, XKI was swept up in an Among Us craze, with Islanders gathering together every day to kill, sabotage, and accuse one another. Accidental self-reports, stab-happy imposter teams, and the clearly-audible sounds of murder coming from unmuted mikes led to a great deal of laughter and made everyone just a little sus.
~XKI joined the partea in the Tea House of Cards, where Islanders discussed trading cards and participated in fun events with friends from other region. Special congratulations to Eastern New England, for winning 1st place in the Quantitea and Regional categories of the Card Collecting Competition alongside Reimstagrad, and to Anisopterra for winning the I'm an Arteast section of Cute Animal Competition with their adorable
drawing. A regional poll by THX1138 asked Islanders to pick their favorite kind of pole. XKI is evidently a fan of penguins as the South Poll became the clear winner!
The RMB picked up again in September with these wonderful revelations:
~Don't go clubbing with Krystalveil
~Fighting words
~NS is sus
~Make a wish!
~Give yourself a round of applause
~GK's #1 Fan
~Jaws 4: Coming to a Daycare Near You
~A true delegate
~Throwback Thursday
HumanSanity has served in many government offices during his years in XKI, and has now taken on the mantel of Delegate. In this edition, he was gracious enough to give us a look into his plans for the region.
Wisch: First off, congratulations on becoming delegate! It's quite the achievement. What inspired you to run for the position?
HS: Since joining NS, regional government and region building have always been interesting to me. Throughout my time in 10000 Islands I've held a variety of government positions. This has always been something, simply put, that I find really fun. As I grow older, I especially love seeing my work succeed in building a strong community. I decided to run for Delegate for a few reasons.
First, it's sort of what's next for me. In XKI, I've held 2 of the 3 Minister positions (Labor and Immigration) and I am the only person to have been elected to each different Senate seat. But I had never been Delegate before, and I have an appetite right now to continue being a part of leading the region.
Second, I think the example provided by Kuriko was really instructive for me, and she certainly deserves credit for demonstrating to me how to effectively and tactfully advocate for defender values in NationStates. While I have my own approach and direction, Kuriko certainly guided me and helped hone my philosophy of XKI's foreign affairs.
Third, on a purely selfish level, I think this is going to be fun. Ultimately, we play NS because it's fun, and I think I'll enjoy both the gear of being Delegate that is about long-term improvements and projects and the gear where you address each problem and crisis as it arises. I think I'm going to have fun over the next 6 months, even if I'll be a bit exhausted
Wisch: You've certainly been very involved in XKI's government! Was anything different about your delegacy campaign than your previous campaigns for senator?
HS: More than anything it was different because I had planned it for a lot longer. I decided I was going to run for Delegate about 6 weeks before declarations open. Just emotionally there was a lot more build up and excitement associated with the election. Running for Delegate is a big decision: it's a 6 month term (not 4 months), it requires you to lock your WA nation from defending activity, and it requires you to serve as an informal figure head/head of state for the region (especially on site) in addition to performing specific job tasks.
Otherwise, it was pretty similar. Of course, I've never been accused of vehicular manslaughter before, but eh, that's not too big a deal.
Wisch: I'm sure getting elected gave you quite the sense of catharsis then. Now, let's look to the future. Could you detail some of your domestic goals as delegate? What's to come for XKI?
HS: My most important domestic goal as Delegate is to embody the spirit of 10000 Islands.
Whenever new nations arrive, they look to the Delegate as the nation's highest elected official. While the Delegate is not the highest member of our government, they are listed first on the main nation page, so they're someone who new nations look up to. It's important that the Delegate leads by example, providing a welcoming and positive presence on the main site, on the forum, and on Discord. Over time, I've gotten to see a lot of different Delegates, and I think this inviting atmosphere and community engagement was the hallmark of Ananke's two very highly regarded terms as Delegate.
Another purely domestic priority for the upcoming term is a bit of work with TIBOE. Vivolkha has done a fantastic job taking an informal leadership role in TIBOE, regularly and aggressively advocating for Delegate endorsements. I want to work with TIBOE and the WA Secretariat to connect TIBOE to the World Assembly Supremacy Program and our broader goals of using cross-endorsement to increase activity.
Wisch: And what can our friends in other regions expect from Delegate HS?
HS: My platform was entirely driven by a belief that expanded cultural and social ties will give us more tools to advocate for defender values on the world stage. Part of this is increasing the depth of our ties with other defender regions and part of this is working more with independent and unaligned regions.
To accomplish this, I am going assist several others in hosting a defender cultural summit shortly. Additionally, I am going to bring back the practice of weekend visits, but instead of attempting to run them every weekend, I'm going to pick and choose and invest more energy into planning each one so they can be more successful.
Lastly, and most importantly, I want my term to serve as an opportunity to clarify and promote a message of compassionate defender internationalism. For far too long "moralism" has been framed as a bad thing in favor of infinite relativism and competitive games playing. While the best defenders, both politically and on the battlefield, are tactical and clever, we cannot abandon our core values which are essential for recruiting, retention, and clarity of purpose.
Wisch: Of course, as delegate, you're going to be heavily involved in WA affairs. How are you planning on handling this new responsibility, especially in regards to upholding XKI's values?
HS: Ultimately, barring exceptional discussions or last minute changes in circumstance (as occurred in my recent decision to override the Liberate Syria vote), I will vote according to forum polls.
Of course, I will exercise clear community leadership on SC discussions. It is important to me that XKI supports Commendations for hard-working defenders and defender regions who have a record of extensive service to the cause. It is also important that XKI supports Commendations for those who have dedicated themselves to building neutral, independent, or gameplay unaligned communities as well - RPers, issue writers and answerers, cards players, and region builders who have also done the quintessentially defender work of building a more inclusive and active game.
Additionally, I want to see a serious pushback against the trend of both Commending and Condemning raiders. Both of these badges for raiders and raider regions become recruiting and propaganda tools. In a strategic sense, defenders should be denying raiders these tools for advancing their agenda. This is obviously an intense politicization of the SC, but the SC is already intensely political.
Most importantly, liberations are the last line of defense we have when things have gone wrong on an operation and native sovereignty is on the line. In do or disappear situations for longstanding native communities, I will be fierce in my advocacy for SC liberations for founderless regions being griefed.
Wisch: Thank you so much for your time. Before we conclude the interview, do you have any final thoughts or comments you'd like to share?
HS: I'm really excited to be Delegate and I'm looking forward to it :)
Atsvea, Lord Dominator, Palos heights, Honeydewistania, and 5 othersTurbeaux, Outer Bele Levy Epies, Middle Barael, Julunaphra, and United provinces of isn
Thanks for the explanation. I already voted on this issue yesterday, and I am still determined not to change the votes.
Hopefully Foresters will decide the best on this issue.
Atsvea, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Outer Bele Levy Epies, and 4 othersMiddle Barael, Julunaphra, United provinces of isn, and Dr Teeth
Why has nobody posted for over a day?
Effazio, Atsvea, Lord Dominator, Outer Bele Levy Epies, and 3 othersTerrabod, Middle Barael, and The young ur
I've been twisting my nipples.
o_o
https://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/wheel-and-rim-truing
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Lol, of course!
Hello again Forest member as Kayden the liked man is here to talk.
Atsvea, Lord Dominator, Outer Bele Levy Epies, Middle Barael, and 1 otherJulunaphra
Hello
Atsvea, Lord Dominator, Outer Bele Levy Epies, Middle Barael, and 1 otherJulunaphra
Hello. Why haven’t anyone been talking lately?
Atsvea, Lord Dominator, Honeydewistania, Outer Bele Levy Epies, and 1 otherJulunaphra
That’s what I was wondering as well!
I have been playing lots of Football Manager
Atsvea, Lord Dominator, Outer Bele Levy Epies, Middle Barael, and 1 otherJulunaphra
Soccer Football, or American Football?
So I guess I’ll start a new conversation with one of my questions:
Who is/are your national Leaders, how does the electoral system work, of what political parties are the National Leaders, and what are their personalities like?
Bananaistan, Atsvea, Lord Dominator, Outer Bele Levy Epies, and 1 otherJulunaphra
Honeydewistania is a parliamentary democracy with a very ceremonial head of state, the President. The current Head of State is Nestor Fernandes-Costa, elected last year in 2019, was formerly the Treasurer of the HELL (more on that later). However the real person in power is Marcel Fraser, head of the Honeydewistania Economic Liberals League, a capitalist party. Marcel Fraser seized control over former despot Aidan Collier. Every several years there is an election and everyone votes for a representative in their constituency. Currently the majority party is the HELL, consisting of 202 seats. Ideologically similar opposition includes 33 seats from centre-right Party Honeydew Democrats, and one seat from xenophobic party Honeydewistanians Unite. The slightly more left wing opposition consists of 18 seats from centre-left party Democratic Socialist Party, 2 seats from the Honeydewistania Environmentalists and one seat from region specific party Honeydewopolis Independence Party. It is total domination by the HELL, even in primarily industrial areas such as Honeydewopolis, though they do not hold the one seat in the capital from the extremely anarcho-Communist and anti-government constituency East Fairdon and Mudhall, which has been subject to severe Budget cuts by the government to stop their dissent. Marcel Fraser and Nestor are much more sensible than previous leader Collier, but they still get accusations of curtailing political freedom
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National Leader: Premier Dakota Hayward, who is currently serving his 10th year (can serve three terms of five years each)
Electoral System: Sacara is divided into thirteen states, each of which gets a certain amount of votes based on population (similar to the electoral college). Three of the thirteen have chosen to give their votes to the overall popular vote winner, regardless of how their own state votes. Two states sub-divide their votes based on how each of their Assembly districts vote. Six cast their votes proportionally to how their state votes, and five cast their votes in a winner-take-all fashion to how their state votes.
Political Party: Premier Hayward is apart of the National Republican Party (NPR), which is the right-wing party of Sacara. The party opposes abortion in all or most cases, pro-death penalty, pro-immigration, pro-gay marriage, pro-low taxes, pro-small government, anti-public healthcare, and pro-gun rights.
Personality: Premier Hayward comes from the moderate faction of the party. When he first ran, he beat out a far-right-wing candidate to gain the nomination from NPR, then proceeded to beat a moderate liberal candidate from the People's Union, which is Sacara's left-wing party. He then defeated a far-left candidate from the People's Union, along with an independent far-right-wing candidate, to win his second term. Sacara is currently in the election season, which will conclude in a few months. Hayward has been described as a kind, yet to the point guy. He was a member National Assembly for eight years before being elected to Premiership. He is relatively popular in Sacara, boasting a 56% approval rating.
Atsvea, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, Outer Bele Levy Epies, and 2 othersMiddle Barael, and Julunaphra
Mount Seymour, Atsvea, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, and 8 othersPalos heights, Honeydewistania, Turbeaux, Outer Bele Levy Epies, Terrabod, Middle Barael, Julunaphra, and United provinces of isn
Indeed - I hope Drasnia returns! They are a prolific issue author, and long-time NS player.
As for the silence on the boards, I think there's a mix of post-Nday relaxing, and our government is kind of waiting to see what occurs with our election cycle... which should have happened weeks ago now. We're still working on stuff hard behind the scenes, but it's rough to commit to anything upcoming when we aren't sure what our schedule is.
That said, Z-Day is coming up soon...
Mount Seymour, Atsvea, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, and 9 othersPalos heights, Honeydewistania, Turbeaux, Outer Bele Levy Epies, Terrabod, Northern Wood, Middle Barael, Julunaphra, and United provinces of isn
In fact, I’m not quite so sure that Z-day would come, mainly because of the global health crisis. It could be seen as insensitive to encourage spreading a contagion at a time like this. Site admins and noted players alike have taken note of this.
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This is very true. I have seen some discussion of that as well, and I wouldn't be surprised if they do decide to avoid the whole contagion thing this year. That said, I also wouldn't be surprised if there were some other type of event operated in its place. Watching that news feed!
Atsvea, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, Turbeaux, and 4 othersOuter Bele Levy Epies, Middle Barael, Julunaphra, and United provinces of isn
I missed frikin N-Day. I even set a reminder on my phone that said ¨AYO, U GOT N DAY TODAY¨and I chose to ignore it. I know N-Day was a while ago but I just chose to talk about it now. 
Verdant Haven if what you say is true about Z-Day.. Im probably still gonna miss it lol. (Unrelated) I wish I could change my name.
Mount Seymour, Atsvea, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, and 5 othersTurbeaux, Outer Bele Levy Epies, Middle Barael, Julunaphra, and United provinces of isn
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